2-Californias Problems

The latest map of a divided california is this one:

Note the yellow line, somewhat hard to see. I got this from the UK Daily Mail, which is like the Enquirer. An English politician came to Orange County (LA suburb) to raise $1M in funds to help pay for a campaign to get this division on the ballot. This turns most of the coastal counties into a new state, and the eastern and middle parts into a different one. We'd be East California. They'd be West California. Fine. So what are the problems?

We do a lot of shipping here. Most of the state's ports are on the coast, and most of the water is here. I'm not sure we'd be willing to give them water at the same rate after they stole from us for 100 years. If we turn off the water to LA we save a lot of energy for the rest of our state, and they get to pay for desalination, which is very expensive, and requires many nuclear power plants along most of the state's fault lines.

A friend from France, fighting the ISIS bastards in Syria (woohoo!), said a friend of hers living here in PRK thinks that Sacramento should be lumped in. I have a problem with that. Hwy 99 and Interstate 5 both go through Sacramento, and the borders are likely to be patrolled and somewhat hostile, since WC is full of BLKLiesMurder and AntiFa assassins and UC Berkeley and Nancy Pelosi, the demented hag of evil.

She's proof there is no God, you know. Or that God is evil. Its one or the other. Which makes you less uncomfortable?

I looked at several other options for dividing the state. The one I came up with (LC/RC) doesn't take the entire North Coast, which hates San Francisco and Sacramento quite passionately. They've been abused and abandoned and would not want to be part of the same state as Antifa, since those bastards murdered their parents working as loggers in the 1990's. I might be convinced that Sonoma and Napa counties would join the commies, but not Lake County or Mendocino. Those are very rural and right wing. And the county with Vallejo might joint the commies too, since they mostly drive into the Bay Area for commute. However, Tracy is screwed, and I would absolutely expect roadblock stations for all the border roads, particularly once the water turns off. The LC will respond by blocking ports and barring travel through the bay into the RC, since Stockton and Sacramento both have ports for container ships despite been 80 miles inland. They aren't as busy as they used to be, but they still operate.

The other options proposed by some Silicon Valley billionaire type is the 6-Californias plan.

This is probably too complicated and "borrows trouble". Giving most of the water supply to Jefferson, which is largely dominated by Meth Junkies and pot growers and teen pregnancy isn't a good thing. Central California crosses the sierras but lacks good roads from west to east. The highest parts of the Sierras dominate, and those mountains are 13,000 feet for 150 miles NW to SE. West California contains LA, but doesn't contain the eastern part of the basin or Orange County. The rural parts like SLO get screwed by race-baiting murder hoboes and billionaire porn kings in Hollywood. South California is 90% desert and 10% San Diego. It would end up very poor and struggle to pay for paving all those desert roads. It might not try, turning the desert communities into the equivalent of Indian Reservations, only with white people. Silicon Valley likewise would ignore the southern part of their area, which includes half of Big Sur, Monterey, Salinas, and the Salinas Valley. It also has the South Bay and Peninsula. San Francisco itself is incredibly evil. Let me say that again. It is EVIL. It is multimillionaires in poverty, and poor people dying as a laugh. Its water and resources are all imported. Only natural air conditioning and port facilities are local. It doesn't make sense if you aren't in shipping. It is due to implode, like a zombie apocalypse. Possibly with cannibalism. I don't care much. I've visited the place too many times to forgive it for its EVIL.

Another option is 3 californias. This is divided up more by actual differences in politics. The Southern California is LA and San Diego. They can argue about rights, etc. It also holds half the desert. Central includes Sacramento and San Francisco and the San Joaquin Valley and Delta. Its big enough to argue payment for the various parts funding, and keeps two good roads over the Sierras. Three if you include the southern Route. The Northern section, possibly Jefferson, is the Sacramento Valley starting in Yuba City and up to the Oregon line, covering mostly rural places and no cities with lots of population. Chico might be the biggest city. Yuba City possibly the other. Most of the water is there, but there's enough agriculture need to keep water flowing south.

The problem with most of these is that you first have to get the state population to vote to divide. Then get the support of the congress and senate to agree to this. Which is possible since its been done a few times in history. There is precedent. If you deny access from ports inland, you have to ship around that, and the cost could be prohibitive by rail. The Western coastal counties are just this side of eating their children in a frenzy of violence, and most places in America think that's going a bit far. If they divide from where I live, and then decide to become another country, then block free access through the Bay for "taxes" or "tariffs" to keep their dreams going a little longer before the BBQ sauce runs out on the baby back ribs of cannibalism (because communists always kill their own eventually), if that happens we could see hostile borders, border patrols manned by drones and FLIR sensors, smugglers risking actual death crossing those borders while the commies invite in Mexicans and ISIS terrorists, and us deciding what to do next. PRK is my home. I was born here. I was raised (badly) here. I survived anyway. Dividing the state into two or three makes sense, and if we go for more I can only hope we don't come to blows if the Coasties go mad, as they likely will without water supply. They think everyone else should pay for their lifestyles, which is exactly the argument that makes for Libertarians in the rest of the state.